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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm really not sure what you mean by that. Sony's eBook Library software in the UK offers you a choice of several different stores to buy your books from (Waterstones, W.H. Smiths, etc), none of which is a "Sony" store, and Sony make it perfectly clear that you can buy eBooks from any store that sells ePub format books.
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I stand corrected in that case. I figured they were like Amazon and did nothing to hint that you could buy books elsewhere, as the one person I know with a Sony is a casual/non-techie type and gets stuff exclusively from the Sony store.
But I didn't mean that negatively. I went with the Kindle as from searching I saw that I'd be able to find pretty much every book I'd ever want to read between the Kindle store (and things like Feedbooks for older, public domain books) and that the prices were generally cheaper than other ebooks stores.
So being tied to one store, for me, was an advantage as convenience is my number one concern after price and selection. DRM is a non-issue as I never re-read books, and would by a hardcover of the rare book I do want to re-read periodically (just got the 3 volume, hardcover illustrated set of Lord of the Rings for example).